Quotes about paradox

You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!

Ripples of paradox spread out across the sea of causality.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.

"The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We want creativity to be a system of cause and effect."

Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless to the alphabetical conservationist as an undrained one was to the empire-builders. Solitude, the one natural resource still undowered of alphabets, is so far recognized as valuable only by ornithologists and cranes.

Thus always does history, whether of marsh or market place, end in paradox. The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

"If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

“The solution lies in secrecy,” said Medra. “But so does the problem.”